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Daniel J.
Ryan
Daniel J. Ryan is a
Professor of Systems Management at the
National Defense University, teaching information security, information
assurance, cryptography, network security and computer forensics. He
prepares curricula and instructional materials and teaches in the classroom
and on-line. He serves as research advisor to individual students on topics
related to national security, and provides analyses of systems management
issues significant to national security.
Prior to joining NDU, he was a lawyer in private practice, a businessman and
an educator teaching law and information security for George Washington
University. Before entering private practice as an attorney, he served as
Corporate Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation
with responsibility for information security for Government customers and
commercial clients who operate worldwide and must create, store, process and
communicate sensitive information and engage in electronic commerce. While
at SAIC, he developed and provided security products and services for use in
assessing security capabilities and limitations of client systems and
networks, designing or re-engineering client systems and networks to ensure
security, enhancing protection through a balanced mix of security
technologies, detecting intrusions or abuses, and reacting effectively to
attacks to prevent or limit damage.
Prior to joining SAIC, Mr. Ryan served as Executive Assistant to the
Director of Central Intelligence. Earlier, he was Director of Information
Systems Security for the Office of the Secretary of Defense serving as the
principal technical advisor for all aspects of information security. He
developed information security policy for the Department of Defense and
managed the creation, operation and maintenance of secure computers, systems
and networks. His specific areas of responsibility spanned information
systems security (INFOSEC), including classification management,
communications security (COMSEC) and cryptology, computer security (COMPUSEC)
and transmission security (TRANSEC), as well as TEMPEST, technical security
countermeasures (TSCM), operational security (OPSEC), port security,
overflight security and counterimagery.
In
private industry, he was a Principal at Booz•Allen & Hamilton where he
served as a consultant in the areas of strategic and program planning,
system operations and coordination, data processing and telecommunications.
At Bolt Beranek & Newman, he supplied secure wide-area telecommunications
networks to Government and commercial clients. He represented the Los
Angeles-based Systems Development Division of TRW in Washington, D.C., and
he was Director of Electronic Warfare Advanced Programs at Litton's AMECOM
Division. He headed a systems engineering section at Hughes Aircraft Company
where he was responsible for the design, development and implementation of
data processing systems.
He
began his career at the National Security Agency.
Mr.
Ryan received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Tulane University, a
Master’s in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, a Master of
Business Administration degree from California State University and the
degree of Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland. He is
admitted to the Bar in the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia,
and has been admitted to practice in the United States District Court, the
United States Tax Court, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has
been Certified by the United States Government as a Professional in the
fields of Data Systems Analysis, Mathematics and Cryptologic Mathematics.
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